Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)

Posted by suixo on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:50PM
from the blog.cloudflare.com dept.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cleaning-up-bad-bots/

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Re:Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate) by robbya on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:58PM (#21056077)

This is similar to hashcash proof of work concepts that inspired Bitcoin. Use proof of work to make not traffic expensive, to create a financial disincentive for running the bot.

I'm curious to see if Tor users get impacted by this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

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Re:Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate) by robbya on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:02PM (#21056100)

Is there something better than a CPU intensive task? They obviously are worried about the power consumption.

I'm thinking a memory and time intensive task that is minimally CPU intensive would be better.

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Re:Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate) by pnako on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:26AM (#21056550)

Grandma's DSL router is about to get much warmer.

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